Dr. Meredith W. Whitaker

Today, we sent the last Research Rundown newsletter for @CovidActNow. You can find an archive of the literature summaries online: covidactnow.org/research-rundo… Many thanks to the friends who beta tested this newsletter, and to the readers who followed along COVID science with us.

Came out of blogging retirement for the @PLOS ECR Community to share advice for students and postdocs considering the #medcomms industry! It's a great field if you're passionate about communication, and you can learn more from @ISMPP.

Meredith Whitaker, PhD, shares her 5-year journey into #MedComms—showing how writing and science intersect. If you’re considering a career in medical communications, check out her insights and tips! 🔗buff.ly/y2L6dT3 #MedPubs

On Data Purge Eve, many people stayed up late to save the CDC website. @charles_gaba downloaded the whole thing. 👑 A group of us are working to make these preserved data an accessible & publicly available resource. More to come, but get started here 👇🏻 acasignups.net/25/02/02/llink…

Women lose >90% of their #eggs by their mid-30s, with persistent #DNADamage driving this loss. But why isn’t this damage repaired? Our new work in @CurrentBiology, led by @ninadini_sharma, reveals the causes of high DNA damage in aged oocytes.🧬💥 bit.ly/48e35Ee (1/13)

The Oculus transit hub was positioned to create a "Way of Light" at precisely 1028am, the time when the second WTC tower collapsed in New York City. Wednesday morning's sunshine allowed for the pathway to form #nyc #newyork #newyorkcity #NeverForget @Sept11Memorial

@ONeyrolles @AlexandreGouzy @saehrt 🤩

The one and only ⁦@AlexandreGouzy⁩ presenting his beautiful work on the mode of action of pyrazinamide in #tuberculosis treatment at #mycobact2024 Poke ⁦@saehrt⁩

@ctmurphy1 Yes doing well! Busy juggling my toddler and work but doing so happily 😊 I'll be visiting campus soon for the fall career fair actually! If you ever have students interested in medical writing send them my way 🐯

@ctmurphy1 From the perspective of a med comms professional: the ICMJE author guidelines can be a tool in your back pocket (icmje.org/recommendation…). Not as helpful for author order but might be for decisions of who is or isn't an author.

Please join us! A community event 9/9/24 6:30-8pm for individuals w- #DownSyndrome & families @EmmaGuttman and @BogunovicLab will discuss the upcoming clinical trial on Skin Diseases in this underserved population. Please register: downsyndromeclinicaltrial.com

@rburdine1 Academia and special needs motherhood are both such hard paths on their own. You have so much to be proud of and so many former students like myself who can credit you for offering important guidance in our career journeys ❤️

If I could give my past self one solid piece of advice I would tell her to give up on trying to be an academic and parent a child that needs 24/7 care. I don’t know what I would have done with the last 18 years of my life. But I have a strange feeling I would be happier.

SCREAMS IN MICROBIOLOGY 😬 #Paris2024 #OlympicGames

@AlekaGurel I love this ❤️

There are so many women in the history of science whose contributions are underappreciated. This @Kickstarter hopes to celebrate Fanny Hesse's work creating agar plates--check it out! kickstarter.com/projects/jens-…

@emtseng @msrsmc @MSFTResearch @hcdeUW This is so exciting!!!

Today, AlphaFold 3 came to life. A monumental leap toward the world of biomolecules. Predicting structures across proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules. The world just changed - let me try to break it down the best I can. 🧵OPEN THE THREAD🧵

My latest story is about how a very old and very cheap drug has been quietly revolutionizing bone-marrow transplants. (1/3)

My hot take is that in NYC, it was cooler to watch everyone gathered together on the street for the eclipse than it was to see the eclipse itself in partial totality.

USGS says 4.8 earthquake centered in New Jersey. CSEM/EMSC says it was a 5.5.

Felt the #earthquake here in NJ! You can document if you felt it here: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…